check_by_ssh problem

[Holger Weiss]

* beick at zib.de [2008-01-03 14:31]:
> > * beick at zib.de [2008-01-02 21:56]:
> >> > On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:34 AM, beick at zib.de wrote:
> >> >> I want to do some checks on a remote host using check_by_ssh.
> >> >> Although user nagios can ssh to that host without being asked
> >> >> for a password the webinterface of my nagios is telling me:
> >> >>
> >> >> Unknown Remote command execution failed: Permission denied
> >> >> (publickey,keyboard-interactive)
> >> >>
> >> >> If I run nagios in the foreground I get prompts for password.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any idea what I might have missed?
> >> >
> >> > Are you using the exact same hostname/IP address for your command
> >> > line test as the nagios user that you have in your configuration?
> >>
> >> Yes, I think so.
> >
> > "I think so" doesn't sound very convincing :-)
> >
> > Anyway, there's no ssh-agent(1) involved?  Does it work on the
> > command line if you use "env -i /path/to/check_by_ssh [...]"?
>
> Yes it does work.
> Does it matter if I do not login as nagios to the webinterface?

No, the web interface shouldn't matter at all.  If it check_by_ssh works
on the command line, executed via "env -i" by the user running Nagios,
then I'm pretty sure you didn't configure Nagios to execute exactly the
same command as you did on the command line (as Marc suggested).

Holger

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